释义 |
sheet1 /shēt/ noun- A large wide expanse or thin piece of something
- A large broad piece of cloth, esp for a bed, a penitent, or a corpse
- A piece of paper, esp large and broad
- A section of a book printed on one piece of paper, a signature
- As much copy as will fill a sheet
- A pamphlet, broadsheet, or newspaper
- A sail (poetic)
- A sill (intrusive sheet; geology)
- Sheet rubber
- One of the separate pieces or planes that make up a surface
- Aircraft structural material under 6.35mm (0.25in) thick, thinner than ‘plate’
adjective- In the form of a sheet
- Printed on a sheet
transitive verb- To wrap or cover with, or as if with, a sheet
- To provide with sheets
- To form into sheets
intransitive verb- To form or run in a sheet
- (of rain) to fall fast and heavily
ORIGIN: OE scēte (WSax scīete), scēat; cf sheet2 sheetˈed adjective - Wrapped or covered with a sheet (esp of a corpse)
- (eg of a cow) marked with a white band or belt
- Spread out like a sheet
sheetˈing noun - Cloth for sheets
- Protective boarding or metal covering
- Formation into sheets
sheetˈy adjective sheet copper, iron, lead, metal, rubber, tin, etc noun Copper, iron, etc, in thin sheets sheetˈ-feed transitive verb and noun sheetˈ-feeder noun (computing and word processing) A storage cassette that feeds single sheets of paper into a printer as required sheetˈ-glass noun A kind of crown glass made in a cylinder and flattened out sheet lightning noun The diffused appearance of distant lightning sheet music noun Music written or printed on (unbound) sheets post-forming sheet (plastics) A laminated sheet suitable for drawing and forming to shape when heated |